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Question about race in the nineteenth century U.S. censuses?

I am doing research on the genealogy of my family. Right now I'm focused in the search for my family 'legendary' American Indian ancestors. So far I have traced to a man named Powhatan, but census records (1870.1880, 1910, 1930) indicate that he was black. This goes against the guarantee of my aunt who was an Indian cigar. Is there any way that the Indians were included in "black" or "color" in the censuses of the 19th century? My great-aunt (who is 80 something) may still vividly described his grandfather (Powhatan) as a weight in the short, small, long, straight hair American Indian.

Sure. The census is full of errors. Father and birthplaces of the mother are accurate only half time. year of birth move. I have a couple of people a year are male, the female to come. I have two cases in which the age and the relationship is accurate, but the name your daughter is the wife and the wife and daughter. That is, John and Mary Smith has a daughter Esmeralda, his name is like Smith, John, Chief of the 30th, Iowa. . . —-, Emerald 28, —-, wife Mary, dau, 8 I have seen people from black to mulatto and mulatto to black. Five or six people who have found no age between censuses, there are 35 in 1860 and 35 in 1870. I have a man who lost two years, 67 in 1870, 55 in 1880. Some interviewers did not care about distinctions esubtle Mak, who were white or not. They used the "N" word that rhymes with "bigger" for African Americans, Red Indians, Indians in India, and sometimes for the Chinese.